Just a day after the Texas Supreme Court approved pro se divorce forms for indigent couples with no children or real property, legal aid providers were already eagerly downloading them. Despite widespread outcry among family lawyers, the high court on Nov. 13 approved the forms. The court will accept public comments on them through Feb. 1, 2013, and may modify them in response.
The court’s decision resolves the battle between, on one side, the State Bar of Texas and family law groups, which staunchly oppose the forms, and, on the other side, the Texas Access to Justice Commission (TAJC), which supports the forms and helped draft them with the high court’s Uniform Forms Task Force.
